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About FreeSpeak

FreeSpeak is a free (as in freedom, developed and released under the terms of GPL) frontend to online translator engines (such as Google, Yahoo, etc.). It is written in Python, it uses the GTK toolkit and some GNOME infrastructure features. FreeSpeak maintainer is Luca Bruno.

Features

  • tabbed consulting
  • text/web translations and suggestions for developers
  • automatically copy and paste from/to clipboard
  • expandible in a very easy way by writing translator modules (currently Google, Yahoo, Open-Tran and FreeTranslation)
  • easy to use and to configure
  • localized (currently English and Italian)
  • good integration with free desktop environments (mostly in GNOME)
  • desktop-wide global keybinding for activating a translation

    • Dependencies

    To run FreeSpeak on your system you must have installed Python 2.4 or higher, PyGTK, PyGObject, GnomePython and GnomePythonExtras, Intltool, Python DBus, Gnome-Doc-Utils, Python-Xlib, LXML,

    Download

    Stable release

    Sources
    freespeak-0.3.0.tar.gz Released on Fri Jan 9 12:58:35 2009 +0100, read the release notes and changelogs
    freespeak-0.3.0.tar.gz.md5sum
    freespeak-0.3.0.tar.gz.sig

    Development version

    git clone git://git.berlios.de/freespeak
     or nightly snapshot at http://download.berlios.de/gitdumps/freespeak-git.tar.gz

    Screenshots

    Release 0.2.0 Sun Nov 23 10:02:17 2008 +0000

    The main window:
    Main Window Screenshot     		Iconified as trayicon:
    Trayicon Screenshot     		The preferences dialog:
    Preferences dialog screenshot
    A text translation:
    Text translation     		A web translation:
    Web translation     		Translation suggestions:
    Translation suggestions Screenshot

    Support

    Visit our page on BerliOS.de, http://developer.berlios.de/projects/freespeak, to submit bug reports, patches and support requests.

    Older releases

    Take a look at the older releases and screenshots.

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